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Wagonways (also
spelt Waggonways), also
known as horse-drawn
railways and horse-drawn
railroad consisted of the horses,
equipment and
tracks used for...
- The
Wollaton Wagonway (or Waggonway),
built between October 1603 and 1604 in the East
Midlands of
England by
Huntingdon Beaumont in
partnership with Sir...
- The
Fawdon Wagonway was from 1818 to 1826 a 1 mile 3 furlongs (2.2 km) long horse-drawn and
partially rope-operated
industrial railway in
Fawdon near Newcastle...
- The
Seaton Burn
Wagonway (originally
known as the
Brunton and
Shields Railway) was from 1826 to 1920 a
partially horse-drawn and
partially rope-operated...
- The
Victoria Tunnel is a
subterranean wagonway that runs
under Newcastle upon Tyne, England, from the Town Moor down to the
River Tyne. It was
built between...
-
Railway (Causey Extension)
Light Railway Order 1991
History of the
Tanfield Wagonway ****side
Local History Society Wikimedia Commons has
media related to...
- up a hill at 4 mph (6.4 km/h). It was used to tow coal
wagons along the
wagonway from
Killingworth to the
Wallsend coal staithes.
Although Blücher did not...
- were
narrow and in
pairs to
support only the wheels. That is, they were
wagonways or tracks. Some had
grooves or
flanges or
other mechanical means to keep...
- 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) for
wagonways in
Northumberland and Durham, and used it on his
Killingworth line. The
Hetton and
Springwell wagonways also used this gauge...
-
earliest evidence of a
wagonway, a
predecessor of the railway,
found so far was the 6 to 8.5 km (4 to 5 mi) long
Diolkos wagonway,
which transported boats...
